First, we acknowledge the elephant in the room and low key admit we kinda wistfully long for "boring" a little bit these days. Not every day, but man alive it sure is something, this landscape we currently find ourselves in.

Anyhow, 20 years ago, a designer and developer sat down together and thought there had to be a better way, and they both had to have a seat at the table. We're not here to dwell — Tony Soprano once rightly said 'Remember when is the lowest form of communication' — but then and now, it's been a pretty solid way to operate. No matter how we've grown, pivoted and evolved, the core idea of sitting down across a table with a designer and a developer and asking What if? It works.

The internet, the culture, our industry— it's always been changing. It's exciting and exhausting and sometimes it's scary– but a good deal of the time? It's incredibly fun. We're still here because we love doing this stuff. Let's make some cool things on the internet. Let's put things out into the world that we can all be proud of. This is Mess. This is what we do.